The Darlington herald. (Darlington, S.C.) 1890-1895, March 16, 1894, Image 1

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Y~- : j s**r mM. Jk^. L.«.,J.* ' Ss^r- VOL. IV. DA.RLINGTON, SOUTH CAltOLlKA, FRIDAY, MAKCH 16, 1894. NO, 15 AROUND THE CITY »IAT fOV KHOW AND WHAT YOU DON’T KNOW. • }» remnls ai4 Short Items of li teral to the focal ani Geier- al Reader. e gardens in the city aix> l«ok- beir l)est. Uhth Kelly is visiting the Blackwell. Cite us a call when iu need of job printing. Mr. John Taylor, of Florence, was in the city Sunday. Dried apples and peaches 5 c. a pound at Deans Bros. Mr. J. Marion Robertson, of Flor ence, was here Tuesday. Alim’‘Gandy, of Society Hill, is Tinting Miss Helen Waddell. Jndge J. H. Hudson, of Bennetts- riHe, risited the $ity yesterday. Messrs. J. E. Norment and S. A. Woods hare returned from New York. Maws. Charles Jar rot and John Power, of Florence, were here Thurs- day. Mayor W. W. Horsey, of Florence, was among the visitors in the city yesterday. . v Miss Clara Ward entertained a small party of her friends on Mon day evening. Mr. Osca' Matthews has moved his shooting gallery from this place to Georgetown. Miss Rebecca E. Tnrbeville, of Florence, visited relatives in this city last Sunday. Mr. J. J. Shepard, proprietor of the Red Flag Racket, is in New York purchasing his spring and summer stock. The remaioing stock of Jewelry and Watches of J. H. Mason will be sold at cost—private sale, for the next ten days. The council have had some nice work done on the square and the grass is very pretty and looks very fresh and green. The Feast of Pnrim will be cele brated on Thursday evening of next week by a grand i>all at Hewitt’s Hall. There will be quite a uumber of visitors from abroad in attend ance. Mr*. T. T. Waivh who has had charge of St. Matthews Church for put few‘months, will leave on Sat urday for the purpose of continuing his theological studies at Suwanec, Tenn. A meeting will be held at the ar mory of the Guards to-morrow for the purpose of making arrangements for a floral fair and also to elect of ficers of the Horticultural Society. A full meeting is requested. Joe Davis, a colored mad, an em ployee of the Phosphate Company, had his left foot badly lacerated by stepping into a conveyor. The acci dent happened on Saturday. Dr Willcox dressed the wound and will save the foot Euter will fall on the 25th of Marti) and will be appropriately ob served in the Methodist and Episco pal churches, both of which will be decorated with flowers on that day. There is no place in the Slate that can show finer flowers than are to be found in Darlington. On Tuesday evening there was quite a large gathering at the resi dence of Hon. G. W. Dargan, all of whom were charmingly entertained by the fine music that was given. Misses Ora Thomas and Lillie Cov ington, of Laurinburg, N. C., Bessie Williamson, Clara Ward, Emma Edwards and Messrs,' T. T. Walsh, C. D. Kyans and S. H. Wilds were the ones that took part in the music. Mr. J. T. Lunn, of the Swift Creek section, died very suddenly, on his way from church, last Sun day. He was a good citizen and stood very high iu the estimation of the people of the community among which bis whole life was passed. He was in the army during the war and made a faithful soldier. He was buried at Swift Creek Church, the pastor of the church conducting the services. A wife and several children lurriw him, CONCLUSION OF THE COURT. Fiial Proceedings of the March Term for This County. A our last issue we aunounced that the case against Judge Reynolds, James Reynolds and Rowland Wind ham, charged with the murder of Cephns Pipkin, was continued to the J une term. The next case was against J. I). Flint) for assmillund battery and was continued to the June term.- The court then-went iuiu the cose against J. S. MoUroight for breach of trust. The suit was brought by J. D. Trevtvthannml a bicycle com pany to recover some machines which were sold fly the defendant on commission. This case occupied the court from Thursday afternoon to Monday afternoon. The solicitor,was assisted in the prosecution by Dar gan & Thompson and the defendant by Boyd & Brown. The jury brought in a verdict of guilty with a recom mendation to mercy. • The sentence was twenty months in the peniten tiary. His counsel will appeal to the Supreme Court for a new tria!. The next case was that of Daniel Davis, for hog stealing. He was found guilty and sentenced to serve one year in the penitentiary. He was represented by Boyd & Brawn. The last case before the court was that of Peter Jordan for burning the barn of J. N. Suggs, in Phila delphia township. The jnry brought in a verdict of guilty with a recom mendation to mercy. As it was a capital offense this recommendation saved his life and he get fifteen years in the penitentiary instead. He was defended by Messrs. H. T. Thomp son and C. P. Dargan, by appoint ment of the court. The Court of General Sessions then adjourned for the term. . SPY MEEKINS Git Hold of the Wrong Man on Last Friday. On Friday of last week Mr. For man, the superintendent of the Elec tric light works, stepped off the 0., 8. & N. train with a valise in his hand. Just as he did so. Met kins, one of the Dispensary spies, seized the valise and attempted to take it away from Mr. Forman, who, of course, resented such an unwan ant- able proceeding and pushed the spy off. Meekins then drew his revolver and said he would search the valise anyhow. Quick as a flash Mr. For man jerked out his pistol and told him if he touched it he would do so at the risk of being shot Just at this juncture some gentlemen inter fered and prevented a collision. Mr. Forman, however, carried off his valise and Meekins was complete ly balked. We have no hesitation in saying that we sustain Mr. Forman and think that he was perfectly justifia ble in resisting what is nothing more nor less, even if done under the form of law, than an infamous invasion of personal liberty and one that should be resisted at all haz ards. Gov. Tillman had just as well learn at once and for all time that he is not the ruler of a province of despotic Russia, peopled with its ignorant inhabitants, but the Gover nor of a sovereign State and is the servant and not the master of its citizens, and that submission to tyranny is opposed to all the in stincts and traditions of the Anglo Saxon race. HARD TIMES. REV. KILGO CREATES A SENSA TION AT BENNETTSV1LLE. Miserable Little 10-l’ent a (al um n Reporters—Logic of tbe Unman Mind, Except in the case of those irro- sjKinsihle and often ivnoraiii men, called cvHiigeliiti!, Tmj: llBaAi.it hoe never contained a line of criticism on any utt<ranees from the pulpit, Hint do-a so now with ivliictiinec. A few week* ago ife'x.l. Kilgo. the financial agent of Wofford Col lege, preached a sermon in the Methodist Church at Bennettfcville which was sensational in the extreme and which was far better suited*to the political platform than the pul- xome ^ rom a heart that has been Wilfred Clarke. The bright young eomedian, Mr. Wilfred Clarke, will again be seen at the Opera House on Wednesday, March til* on which occasion he will present‘•Little Butterfly.” Tbe Raleigh News and Observer says of thjs performance: “A large and fashionable audience greeted Wilfred Clarke and his ex cellent company at the Academy last night, when ‘Little Butterfly” was presented for Hie first time be fore a Raleigh audience. Tho play is bright and amusing, the plot con sistent, and the situations immensely fnnny. Mr. Clarke, as the young old man, was Hie soul and life of the play, lie was ably assisted by Miss Sophie,Albert, who will be re membered here for her conscientious work. Miss Mabel Knowles also came in for a large share of favor, whilst Messrs. Storm, Baker and Seisin were all excellent.” The Postollke Fight at an End. 'Mr. A. A. Gundy has been ap pointed postmaster at Darlington, and while we regret that the otliee could not haye been given to an older resident of the town, we take pleasure, in saying that Mr. Gandy is a gentleman of very high charac ter, courteous and otdiging and in every respect qualified to discharge the duties of the Jmsition. We dif fer with him politically, but the county has no better citizen than Mr. Gaudy, or one of greater integ- r ^' pit. We only mention a few of his remarks in order to show the tenor of his sermon, if it could be digni fied by that title, and the reason of our criticism. He said that one of the causes of hard times was a lack of confidence m our fellow man, and attributed this lack of faith largely to the in-- flueuce of the newspapers. They thought they must have news and no scandal is too dirty, no foul, fiendish lie too mean for them to publish. Under cover of the freedom of the press they, the newspapers think they can print anything, however false, about the most sacred things. That they eau and do lie basely. That there miserable little 10-cent a column reporters would listen at a keyhole or resort to any other means to find out the most private matters of a man’s life. He said that they might print such things as would forever ruin our characters, and that there was no redress. If any other man did this you could call him to account, but go to the editor and he would refer you to the courts aud tell you to sue him; but he said, I would rather sue a cemetery of dead tramps. Mr. Kilgo, as men of his style.of speaking almost invariably do, was gracious enough to except some of the newspapers from his tirade. We could easily give more extracts from this so-called sermon, but deem the ones quoted as being amply sufficient to explain the reason of our protest. , . Of course it is acknowledged, by every intelligent man,that some news papers are unscrupulous iu regard to what they publish, but while this is true, it must be admitted, by every candid mind, that the press is a mighty engine for good and is one of tbe most vigilant guardians of the, liberties of the people, and that no corrupt i>olitical organization, no matter how strongly entrenched, can withstand its resistless onslaughts. Our purpose, however, is not to defend the press against this attack, for if that were all there would be no occasion for the writing of this article, for it is very certain that it will not cost any of the editors in the State one moment’s repose or in any manner disturb the even tenor of their ways. It may not, however, be amiss to state that whatever other ways they may have been at fault, the newspapers have ever shown the utmost courtesy aud consideration towards ministers aud have always given them all the assistance iu their power. , The point we wish to make, and it cannot be too often repeated or too strongly emphasized, is this: That the duty of a minister is to preach the Gosjiel in all its simplicity and purity, and never, under any cir cumstances, degrade his high and holy office by discussing social and political subjects from the pulpit. The grand cardinal doctrines of Christianity furnish an inexhaust ible theme upon which to base his discourses and the cx{>o8itiou and illustration of its divine teachings give ample scope to the greatest powers of eloquence and logic of which the human mind is capable Nothing Initewl can come from i departure from this imperative duty, and the minister who has no higher conception of his calling than to use the pulfit for the utterance of political tirades, ought to follow some oilier profession. It is far ! better for him to leave the discussion of social aud political topics to thosc who ha.e made them a study, and who a r c just .is couscienli jus and us anxious to bring about needed forms as the minister himself. A very large majority of the people who attend church on Sunday go to hear sermons, in the true meaning of the tcrit), ami uot s|hsatioual har angues which do hlrm instead of good. They have Jiad, perhaps, many cares and anxieties to face during the week and when they take their places in the house of God they want words of comfort and of cheer. They want to put aoide worldly troubles aud let their minds dwell upon all the tender and Hope ful prumi*-* of the One who hug promised to Csiiv f ir- n!id prone! all n ho coil tipun his holy name. They want to feel that they are listening to the counsel of one who has held close communion with his Maker, and whose words of Jt^ape and Ipve PITHY ITEMS. shingle baptized with the Holy Spirit They want to gather new 'inspirations oi duty aud greater stirengtb for the temptations and responsibilities of life, aud unless they ire helped to do this, then it would be iar better for them to remain at home and spend the time in contemplation of the wisdom and mercy of the Creator. In writing the above it is very far from our intention to be in the least unkind or unjust'to Mr. Kilgo, but merely to call att|iitioi^to What will, unless checked, impai^his use fulness and bring repfuncb, not only upon his own chural, but to the cause of Christiunity.JfHnrge. FARM T<n|u8. Plant Plenty of PrjfVhion Crops. Be Independent ojf the West. As the time is u^r at hand for the planting of croflfc we urge upon the farmers the deep importance of putting in heavy crops of corn and other provisions. ^There is ab solutely no danger of jtheir not being able to dispose of surplus they may have for the simile reason that there are, in the toWjis and cities, a large number of no4-producers who arc always glad to get all kinds of farm produce. It ijiultl, however, probably pay better to fee3 the* sur plus grain, peas and potatoes to hogs than to sell it outright. There are thousands of pounds of meat imported into the county every year, to say nothing of corn and other provisions, and there is abso lutely no excuse for it. This is a drain on our financial resources which should be stopped if we wish to be truly prosperous aud indepen dent The fanner who raises his own supplies does uot need much money to pay for things that he cannot produce -at home. Our most suc cessful and independent farmers are those who raise plenty of provisions and make, iu this way, their farms self snpportiug. We have never yet found a merchant but that deplored the necessity of having to supply his customers with corn and meat, but they have no choice in the matter .is they can’t make everybody learn common sense about this important matter. Of course it is well to make a good cotton crop, but if plenty of provisions are made there is uot the remotest chance of an over-produc tion of our great money crop. It is simply idle for a farmer to say that he can’t raise his own supplies. His failure to do it results uot from ina bility but from lack of inclination. . Grand Opening. However handsome a lady may be, there is not one of the sex who be-, lieves iu unadorned beauty, and so they will all bo interested in the grand opening that Messrs. S. A. Woods & Co. will have ou the 27th and 28th of the present month, at which time they will exhibit the prettiest and best assorted stock of dress goods that they have ever had. Everything will he arranged for the convenience of those who wish to inspect their goods aud they cordi ally invite all the ladies to be pres ent, believing that they can please the most fastidious taste. The open ing will include two days In order tiiat all who care to look at beauti ful goods may have the opportunity o'clock to do so. EVENTS OF A WEEK IN THE PALMETTO STATE. Tersely Telling of Passing Events Calculated to Catch (he Eye and Interest the Reader. At Charleston a cypress mill has been built. A col ton mill company is being organized lit Abbeville. A sa b. ib-or m.d blind factory U t-i be bcilt a! Abbeville. Ail electric light plant for street and hlnse lighting is to be built at Edgefield. The Columbia Electric Railway po., will 'extend its line into the southern suburbs. The Bank of Lowndesvillc has suspended. It was a State institu tion with $20,000 capital. A charter has been issued for the Millfort Mill Company of York county. Capital stock $140,000. A bill 1ms passed Congress to transfer the Morris Island life saving station near Charleston, to Sullivan's Island. Mr. Samuel McGowan, Jr., of Charleston, has been appointed as sistant paymaster in the United States navy. The Greenville & Columbia Rail road is adding $30,000 worth of new machinery to its machine shops at Abbeville. The Bank of Johnston, iu Edge- field county, is prosperous. The capital stock has been increased from $10,000 to $150,000. A commission has been issued tiie Economical Building aud Loan As sociation of Orangeburg. The capi tal stock is $200,000. The Bank of Chester has made an assignment to Messrs. J. J. Hemphill and J. L. GLnn. Depositors protec ted and stockholders will lose noth ing. Col. Wm. B. Utsey, alias Dauid C. Camp, who chums to be from South Carolina, wits arrested last week for attempting to swindle two Philadelphia firms. Gen. Rudolph Seigling, oue of Clmrleston’s most prominent -and wealthy citizens, died last Wednes day, of paralysis. At the time of his death he was president of the News and Courier Company. ON THE HILL. Personal Paragraphs Pertaining 1o Visiting People—Improve ments and Other News. [From our Regular Correspondent.] Mr. J. C. Patric k’s green grocery, on Railroad street, next to. J. Ih Holt’s grocery, will open to-day. J. R. Holt is doing the business at the factory. Mrs. Mary Gay, of North Carolina, is visiting Mrs. F. S. Terry. Remember that W. L. Kendall still keeps fine beef, mutton, pork and poultry, aud will not be under sold. Near James’s store, Pearl street. .Mr. Will James has sold his stock of groceries to Messrs. Dyans Bros. J. it. Holt’s is the place to get your supplies. Mr. H. II. Merritt opened his singing school last Monday night, with about forty-live scholars.' Mr. Victor Terry, traveling agent for Luddeu it Bates’ music house. Savannah, Ga., spent last Sunday on the hill. Mr. J. E. Gainey entertained his many friends last Tuesday night with another one of those enjoyable balls. Go to J. R. Holt for sixteen ounces to the pound and low prices. Several young lads ou the hill ran away from their parents last week, but being without funds, the wolf soon began to chase them and they all returned borne. Rev. J. G. Law will preach at the “ (H R FIRST COTTON.” Some More Information on the Subject. In our issue of March 2d wc pub lished an article iu reference to early culture of cotton. We do not know the writer, as the article was copied from an exchange. A cultured gen tleman, a resident of Georgetown, sends us a copy of a leltcr, written in 1788, in reference to cotton, aud which was published in the Pennsyl vania Gazette. The bound volumes of this old paper are contained iu the library of the Winyah Indigo Society, of Georgetown, which society has a large collection of old books and manuscripts iu its possession. Just after the war a. great many of its most valuable books were stolen by the Federal officers who occupied the tow u, and now probably arc in the possession of people who value books more than they do honesty. The readers of The Herald are under obligations to the gentleman for his kindness in sending a copy of this old letter: “EXTRACT FROM I'ENNSVI.VAKIA <iA- ZETTK, Al'RIL 12, 1788. April 12.—A correspond..tit lias favored us with the following infor mation, which he tells us may be re lied on: A gentleman In Christ Church parish planted an acre of land with- cotton seed which has produced a bag of wool weighing 207 lbs net; this he has sold at lb pence per pound, so that he got for whole 10 .£ 13s. Dd. It was, on examination, of an ex ceeding good quality; the planter declares that had he attended it properly, it would have produced more. He further says, that oue of his hands could with ease take care of 7 or 8 acres, until the cotton is ready to take in, at which time he must have the assistance of small negroes to pick and carry it into safety. As the mode of cleaning it in this county formerly is what the planters dislike, we have the pleas ure to add, that there are persons in this State who can make the neces sary machines for picking it, as well as for carding and spinning it. This commodity bids fair to become a principal riaple article of export from tliiti State, for if one negro can manage 7 acres and it sells at the aboye price only, his labor will bring his owner in 11G £, 16s. 3d. per an num, supposing also that each acre, of land produces only 207 lbs of cotton. It is well known that the cotton manufactories in Great Brit ain will take any quantity that this State can raise, as they are deter mined by good judges to be now only in their infancy. Land that is unfit for rice or corn will yield cot ton; as negroes in raising this ar ticle, will have no occasion to wet their feet, they will of course be more healthy, and will live longer than they do by raising rice in swamps; besides which, as they will be able to earn so much money by the cultivation of it, the planters will thereby raise the value of every negro now in this State.” PROGRAMME The I’reshyteiian ministers of Baltimore are arranging for a series of lectQres to be given in that city j next mouth by professors in Prince ton Heminary. The general theme of the lecture? will be science and re-! religion. hall next Wednesday night at 7. ,5 A. F. M. A Chemical Romance. Halil Atom to Molly Culo, "Will you unite with me?” And Molly C'ule did quiek retort, "There’H no affinity.' licueulh the - leetric light plant’s shade 1‘oor Atom hoped he'd meet ber, But she eloped with a u. eul lle.se, And now her name’s Halt Petr'. —Exchange. FLORENCE DISTRICT CONFER ENCE FOR MARCH 29-31. Three Day's Srxsion—Rev. T. C. O’Dell Will Preach the Opening Sermon Thursday 11 A. M. The following order will be ob served at the Florence District Con ference : THURSDAY, MARCH 29TH. !):30 A. M.—Opening and organi zation of the Conference. 1. —Reports from pastors on the spiritual state of the Church. 2. —Discussion, (a.) Is the spir itual state of the Church keeping abreast with its material and finan cial advancement? Opened by Dr. J. F. Pearce. (b.)—What can be done to most effectually improve our spiritual con dition? Opened by Rev. W. W. Daniel. (c.)—Do the pastors emphasize spirituality as they should in their sermons and in their pastoral work? Opened by G. Hoffmeyer. (d.)—Do the local preachers and officials of the Church contribute to this end as is their duty ? Opened by Roy.' W. 11. Hodges. FRIDAY, MARCH 30TH. L—Missions.—Is there any terri- To be answered by mem- Rairing Pork. The only drawback to raising hogs, outside of having oue stolen occasionally, is the danger of chol era, and with this like a great other contagious diseases, the ounce of prevention is essentially better than the pound of euro. For twelve years in succession the writer raised hogs and in that time had only one to die and that not from cholera. They we re kept in a pasture where there was an ample supply of pure running water, and this is essential, to which they had free access. About mice every three or four weeks they were given a mixture consisting of a package of condition powder, salt, powdered charcoal and hickory ashes. This was put in about a bushel of meal and spread out iu a long trough. They ate it very greedily and kept in perfect health all the time. Of course it will not to do to give them too much of the mixture at one time arid cave must be taken to put it in a sufficient quantity of meal so as to make it palatable. We believe that if this plan were followed there would be no danger of cholera. Too much emphasis ean’t be put on the importance of their having plenty of fresh pure water. Merchant—1 wish this dry goods advertisement put in some part of the paper, where th. women will ho sure to aeo it. | Editor—Why, gru.tt snako?, man, I when wo want to print anything | where the women will be 'sure to see j it we put it along side of a dry goods I auvrriiouufut.--A’-w York Weekly, tory in the district unoccupied by us where we ought to establish new missions ? tiers of the Conference. Discussion: (a.)—Are our domes tic missionaries supported as they should be? and. if not, what is the cause of our failure to properly sup port them ? Opened by Roy. C. D. Mann. (b.)—How may we increase our collections for Foreign and Domestic Missions the present year? Opened by J. (1.‘Clements. 2.—IJousea of worship and par sonages.—Discussion: (a.) Are our houses of worship and parsonages prope. ly caved for ? and, if not, What can be done to improve them, and to protect our houses of worship from being desecrated by being put to im proper uses ? Opened by Rev. J. E, Rushtou. (b.)—Our duty to Church Exten sion and the Woman’s Parsonage und Home Mission Society. Opened by Rev. Juo. E. Carlisle. j. Financial systems: (a.)—Ke- p cts on by laymen. Discussion: (a.)—Does the Church realize its responsibility in relation (lj to oui' benevolent enterprises, aud, (2) as the support of the minis try? Opened by John A. Kelley. (b.)—The pastor’s duty in relation t9 the collections. Opened by J. G, McCall. (c.)—-Relation and duty of Stew ards to the collections. Opened by Rev. T. C. O’Dell. SATURDAY, MARCH 31ST. 1. —Sunday Schools. (a.)—Reports from pastors and superintendents. Discussion: (a.)—What may be done to improve our Sunday schools. (1.)—In their organization. (2.) In the literature. (3.) In their efficiency as a means of saving onr young people. Opened by Rev. W. B. Duncan. 2. —Christian Education. Discussion: (a.)—Our common and high schools—their work .in Christian education and iu the evan gelization of the world. Opened by A. Mel*. Hamby. (b.)—The circulation of our liter ature and its influence in the work of education. By Dr. Kirkland. (o.)—Our Colleges. Dr. S. B, Jones and John C. Kilgo. Pastors will bring (Quarterly Con ference records. By all means, brethren, let us haye a full attend ance. I .et every pastor, local preacher and delegate be present, iu the spirit of the Master, at the first session Thursday, to stay to the close. Rev. T. C. O'Dell will preach the opening sermon Thursday, 11 A. M. J. B. Was jv, P. E. 8100 For a Botllr. Mrs. 8. II. Winship, 113 Washing ton St., Providence, 11. 1. after using one bottle of Drummond's Lightning Remedy for Rheumatism, wrote to the Drummond Medicine Co., 48 Maiden Lane, New York, saying she would not take-One Hundred Dol lars for the benefit received. If you have any form of Rheumatism, and wish to get rid of it, send $5 to the Drummond Medicine Co., aud they will send to your address two bottles of their remedy—enough fer > mouth’s treatment. Agents wantet| r